A Story of Treatment and Recovery

Last Day of Chemo!

Spent the entire day – 7 am to a bit after 6 – at Roswell today. I had a brief meeting with my medical oncologist, followed by an eon of sitting around waiting for my infusion. Roswell keeps you waiting a lot more than my doctors back in Indiana, presumably because it is so big. They also gave me a slightly different cocktail this time – the chemo drugs were all the same as usual, but they’re giving me different anti-nausea drugs and something other than neupogin to boost my white count. Also they gave me an IV of Benadryl, which completely knocked me out – I slept almost through the whole infusion – three and a half hours – including my Taxotere, when I’m supposed to be awake and sucking ice. We’ll see whether that turns out to make a difference.

The bright spots of the day were a good conversation with an older gentleman with lymphoma, finishing the Times crossword puzzle, and making a test swatch for my next knitting project. Tonight a friend from Buffalo is in town, and he very kindly invited me to have dinner with him and his friends, so I get to go out for Vietnamese food. I’m a little nervous, but it will be nice to hang out with people. Hopefully I slept enough during chemo that I won’t pass out in my Pho.

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Hope you didn’t fall asleep in your Pho, and that you had a wonderful time. What is Pho, and is it a hot dish, cold, slimy, or what? Regardless, I agree, it would be embarrassing, at least, to fall asleep in it.

I wish we had a good Pho place here, nearest one is an hour away. When you say Roswell, do you mean “area 51?” sorry. that’s just the way I interpret your new hang. I keep thinking you’re being experimented on by Dick Cheney’s army in some undisclosed location. Oh, Roswell, nevermind.

Roswell Park sent me a magazine that was almost as glossy as Buffalo Spree.

Just as reading Spree,gives one the impression that everyone in Buffalo is handsome, happy and very rich, so it is in the Roswell Park magazine that everybody who gives or gets treatment there is handsome, happy and well or very soon will be.

WJA and I read every word in it.

And just as there are no flying saucers at Roswell and the Pho in Buffalo is really good, then we choose to believ it all.